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Gremlin Historic Rally - 10th May 2025

Club Members Graham Richardson & Keith Storer took on the daunting Epynt Military Ranges and challenging Welsh roads on this HRCR Road Rally Championship round.The event attracted a top class entry.

Keiths Report below :-

5:28 Saturday evening, it’s the start of Graham Richardson and my adventure on the Brecon MC’s Gremlin Rally 2025 starting from Talgarth Rugby Club.

2 regularities to complete a 10ml and secondly a 20ml run both based on map features with regularity 1 including all roads, fairly straightforward with Reg 1 having 8 speed changes and Reg 2 having 13. The evening finishing with a meal at the Llangorse activity centre.

Sunday morning in glorious sunshine( yes in Wales )battle commenced in earnest from the Old Railway Garden Centre in Three Cocks, the day would consist of 10 tests and 7 regularities based on and around the Epynt Ranges.

Reg. 3 started just 1.6 mls from the start on narrow Welsh lanes and finished 36mls later deep in the ranges, this was followed by 3 very fast flowing tests before coffee.

Reg 4 was somewhat unknown as only the 1st 4.6 mls of the 12ml route was preplot but this caused much chatter amongst the navigators as route instructions were basically any bodies guess. Use at least 2.3 mls of whites before entering forest at castle grid after 4.6mls. Pass through 2 not as map triangles and at least 2 SP’s. Eventually a route was decided upon and we all lined up, on starting we were given the route from the cattle grid which was tulip diagrams of not on map gravel forest roads.
Fabulous fun! 2 more tests brought us to lunch at Toyota in Builth Wells where we got the route for Reg 5.

Reg 5, 13 speed changes over 26mls back into the forest and ranges again based on passing through map features. This was closely followed by 3 tests before the next Reg.
There was a slight delay on one of the test as the army wanted to move some equipment through the test at least this allowed the dust to settle!

Reg 6 was 19ml run starting with a herringbone on whites of 10 junctions before continuing into the forests again on tulips. 2 more tests before the last Reg back to the finish at the garden centre.

Reg 7 was a 13 ml run with 8 speed changes based on up and down gradients with a couple of LWRT’s ( long way round triangle ) and a black spot.

The day concluded with a carvery and awards presentation. This was probably one of the best rallies that I have ever competed on both for organisation, choice of route and camararedie of both competitors and organisers. Well done !

Keith Storer